Watch the Superdome Control Room Calmly Resolve Power Outage without Using Profanity or Throwing Remotes

Kudos to the Superdome control-room employees, who, new video suggests, handled the 35-minute Super Bowl power outage without cursing, sweating, or throwing a single walkie-talkie through the glass window of their Superdome box in frustration. Perhaps this cool response was partially due to the fact that a CBS camera crew was stationed nearby, capturing behind-the-scenes footage for an upcoming 60 Minutes Sports telecast, when the lights went down in the New Orleans sports arena—briefly rendering the room silent. Regardless of whether the CBS camera crew, preternatural calmness, or anticipatory dosages of Xanax should be credited, watch below as N.F.L. senior vice president of events Frank Supovitz coolly manages the situation in a video that is not nearly as climactic as a stadium-power-outage scenario favored by many Twitter users, about the W.W.E. character the Undertaker.

The mood in the control room begins to approach frantic only when Doug Thornton, an executive at the company that owns the Superdome, SMG, delivers some cryptic bad news that neither we nor Supovitz can understand.